Quick - I need a new pan

[Kestevan]

Oh Poo !


I'm working from home today, and at lunchtime I thought it would be a good idea to make a head start on the cottage pie for dinner tonight.

So, big pan of potatoes on the stove ready to make the mash.

Then I wandered back upstairs to the study and resumed work..... till 10 minutes ago, when I wondered what that horrible smell was. Queue dawning realisation that the stove was still on, and the smell was a load of spuds welding themselves to the charred remains of one of my best pans.

Looks like the we're having a take-away tonight.

 

[Dayvo]

At least it wasn't a canned jam sponge pudding boiling dry in a pan!

Only a bloody idiot would let that happen!

 

[asterix]

Been there, done that. If it is a decent or even half decent non-stick, just bung a bit of water in it and simmer. That will soften the debris and restore it to normal..

Unless you really, really charcoaled it..

 

[david1701]

my sister burnt spaggetti once, about 6 years ago - she hasn't been allowed to live it down yet

 

[vernon]

my sister burnt spaggetti once, about 6 years ago - she hasn't been allowed to live it down yet

Ha!

My mate burned lettuce. Beat that!

 

[asterix]

my sister burnt spaggetti once, about 6 years ago - she hasn't been allowed to live it down yet

Psssttt.. Did you know you have dropped an aitch?

 

[ttcycle]

The pan won't be ruined

Try this:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4937638_clean-bottom-of-burnt-pans.html

 

[longers]

We thought we could smell baking one afternoon when we weren't doing any and went out. Came back 4 hours later to find it had been a big pan of porridge that we'd both missed simmering away.

The pan was fine but the porridge was a write off.

 

[longers]

My mate burned lettuce.

How please?

 

[Aperitif]

How please?

Fried halves of lettuce are neat. (theclaud to blame for that idea...) Scorched to buggery - too crispy!

Hello longers - welcome backers!

 

[vernon]

How please?

He was a commis chef in a busy restaurant and put the wrong dish under a grill.

 

[david1701]

Psssttt.. Did you know you have dropped an aitch?

I don't know what aitch means

 

[Svendo]

I've had success using biological washing powder and warm (not too hot, stops the enzymes working) water overnight. Breaks down the protein that welds the burnt stuff to the pan apparently.
I seem to do this regularly with stews, despite using my phones countdown timer . Hey ho.

 

[Fnaar]

We kept smelling a funny smell in the kitchen when making toast under the grill. For about a week. Then Mrs F found one of my bicycle lights in there. I'd used it as a torch to reassemble fallen apart slidey out bit that grill pan rests on, and left it in there. Doh! Melted beyond use, it was. It was an old plastic jobby from Halfords, so no great loss.

 

[Aperitif]

At least it wasn't a canned jam sponge pudding boiling dry in a pan!

Only a bloody idiot would let that happen!

Ha! When I was a young 'elite athlete' (like Dayvo) and playing cricket with a bunch of old soaks, who insisted on 'rehydrating' me to the max after every game, I returned to my parent's home late one Saturday evening /early Sunday maybe
Feeling peckish, I opted for something simple, so I got a pan of water and placed a tin of ravioli within. The idea was to bring the water to boiling point and let it cook the contents of the tin, then open carefully.

"What the bloody hell do you think you are doing boy?" It was my Dad... he never, ever shouted at me.
But he was now. I had simply fallen asleep (10 pints to the good I should think) and the pan had boiled dry. The ravioli had cooked a treat - and more. Apparently there was this huge explosion, which I had slept through, and the saucepan was wrecked. The boiled dry tin, in the boiled dry pan obviously did its own 'pressure release thing' and projected the ravioli upwards and embedded it into the ceiling - all over the place! The gas stove was a New World something or other, which had parallel stainless steel bars as pan supports. all these in the vicinity of the pan were dislodged and fell onto the floor. The floor was red quarry tiles which was handy. Not so handy was the dandycord plastic mat which covered them. The rods being red hot, mingled with the PVC in fine style!
A right mess. And all I did was get out of my chair and go to bed. It probably took my Dad a few weeks to repair and cover the ceiling in spiky textured finish - he was worried about the council coming around and seeing a mess!
Sorry Dad.